Second woman robbed outside car in less than week

Police considering offering another self-defense class for women

7:31 AM,
Dec. 11, 2012

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The Gazette staff

In less than a week, there have been two separate incidents in Chillicothe in which a woman was robbed outside her car while parked at her home, according to officials.

The most recent happened on the 500 block of Church Street at 10:27 p.m. Sunday. According to a Chillicothe police report, the woman said she was at her car off the alley behind her home and about to put the key in the door when she was attacked.

She told police someone grabbed her hair from behind and pulled her to the ground while trying to pull her purse off her shoulder. The woman kicked him in the groin and she was able to get away and ...